It’s hard to believe we’re still making new scientific discoveries about Earth, but the third rock from the sun continues to ...

Earth Day is celebrated one each spring to promote environmental protection and awareness. Celebrating its 56th year, this ...

A new analysis of meteorite isotopes challenges long-held ideas about Earth’s origins, suggesting our planet may have formed ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. New research shows that rising sea levels caused by melting ice sheets are redistributing mass across the planet, ...

Earth Day started in the 1970s. Here’s an Earth Day fact everyone should know: Earth Day was first observed on April 22, 1970 ...

Our planet is a cosmic marvel spinning through space at incredible speeds, harboring an estimated 8.7 million species, and maintaining the perfect conditions for life as we know it. Yet despite living ...

The Earth is pretty good at keeping its pace. However, variations do happen. And on three separate days this summer—July 9, July 22, and August 5—the Earth will spin notably faster than usual. Of ...

The realizations on social media align with what researchers have long known about Earth's composition.

Amid the cold silence of the main belt, a giant rock drifts through space. It has existed for billions of years unchanged, but today, it will be irrevocably broken. Another rocky object hurtles toward ...

When you think about our origin story, and of our planet -- among all of the planets in the cosmos -- there is a deep ...